Diary of a Rubber Duckie Designer

This page is dedicated to the realization of my dream to design, have manufactured, and distribute a rubber duckie: To become a rubber duckie designer. Follow along on the journey through my Diary of ...

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She’s the real thing! Designed after the toys made in Akron, Ohio during the 50′s and 60′s -the heyday of American toy manufacturing – the Quilting Rubber Duckie has the charm of retro, with detail molded into her. She carries a bolt of fabric, chain-pieced squares, and shears and a rotary cutter. From her top knot to her perky tail, she’s pure cuteness!
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Rubber Duckies: Made in the USA Again!

Guess who is paddling ahead in bringing manufacturing back to American shores? None other than that icon of bubbly good clean fun, the rubber duckie!
After creating dozens of celebrity rubber duck likenesses and having them made overseas, Craig Wolfe of Celebriducks got the hare-brained idea of moving production for a duck back home. Appropriately christened with the patriotic name “Sam”, this duckie’s birth is a blessed event – for rubber duckie lovers anyway – and is a nod to the time when Akron Ohio was the Capitol of toy making.
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I love manure. To me, manure signifies that all is right with my world. Manure is the cycle of life. When it comes out of the horse I know all is well with the horse. When I spread it in the fields and the grass grows strong, I know my […]

Meg Cox shared a post on Facebook about her guiding word for 2014: “legacy.” Her choice is oh-so appropriate, considering she is the expert on family traditions. In true Meg style, she then invited friends to share their New Year’s word-to-live-by. As an exercise it’s a great opportunity to […]

Yup, that’s me. Sounds silly but bear with me. We all have them. Those smacked-in-the-head moments when reality shifts. Or, more correctly, we catch up with reality. It’s especially surprising when it’s something about yourself, something staring you right in the face, but didn’t acknowledge. An instantaneous change in how […]

It wasn’t and isn’t mine, I didn’t create it, I simply inherited it. Which made it mine. What am I talking about? Fear. I had ridden horses into my twenties, when I finally accepted the fact that I absolutely did not enjoy the reality of riding. You see, I was […]

Today marks the 8th day of my Kickstarter campaign. Eight days, and we’re at 80% of our goal. Eighty percent! Note that I wrote “we” above. There’s no question. The only thing I have done is facilitate it. In 2007 I imported a batch of Quilt Shop Cuckoo Clocks from […]

Meet Possum, the Owl Dressed in a Maine Coon Kitty Fur Suit Possum is wise, quiet, and self-composed, as are all owls. No, wait a minute; he’s a kitty. Feline. Then he’s an owl dressed in a Maine Coon Kitty fur suit. That’s it. Oh, but then, by his markings he looks like […]

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About Jodie

Taking the long way around, Jodie has written over 35 books and has become a top TV host in the quilting world shepherding an online network for quilters, QNNTV.com, which was birthed in the early days of online TV, her goal being to spread the magic of making things. Her journey has brought her to demonstrating products on HSN, co-hosting the most-seen crafts show on PBS, and co-hosting an off-the-wall lifestyle quilting show she created with Mark Lipinski. Her extra-curricular activities (which are becoming her front-and-center focus) include designing rubber duckies and cuckoo clocks. Jodie measures her live by the sounds and smells of the seasons in her Butterfly Roof House at Tucked Away Farm in north Georgia with four felines, two old dogs, two miniature horses, and two Tennessee Walking Horses who have taught her a lifetime's worth of what it means to be a human.
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